Vegetarian Star

If we had a dollar for every time we made fun of Gwyneth Paltrow for her pretending to be a real vegetarian then sneaking the turkey legs under her kitchen table, we’d make more money than what she’s made over the past decade.

We have learned that a recent entry to her online newsletter Poop Goop features a brief interview with her friend Tamra Davis, a film producer and director who, like Gywneth, talks of being “mostly vegetarian.”

Writes Gwyneth:

“We are both mothers of two small children, in the film business, are passionate amateur cooks, have an obsession with Vegenaise, are married to musicians and have a similar food ethos.”

Mmm…At least Gwynnie’s got good taste for vegan mayonnaise. Even if she does baste her Thanksgiving turkey with it.

This could be one of your few chances to snag a recipe featured on Goop that’s actually vegetarian, as Gwyneth is currently featuring Seitan with Lemon Caper Sauce, aka “Dinosaur Meat”.

Hop on over to Goop and check it out!

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Not long ago, we brought you the news that MTV would be airing a series of pro-vegetarian ads sponsored by animal rights group Compassion Over Killing (COK).

The group started airing such ads back in 2004, and recently launched their 2009 campaign, which feature the gruesome, behind the scenes look at factory farms.

So how has it been going?

For the most part, good, according to Erica Meier, executive director of COK, who was recently interviewed by QSR magazine. A few highlights from the interview:

Why air them almost exclusively on MTV?
Studies have shown that teen and young-adult audiences are most receptive to a message of vegetarian eating. They’re more willing to explore new foods and change their diets.

Why do the commercials focus so heavily on graphic images of animal cruelty?
Since most people will never visit a factory farm, and since the industry attempts to keep a lot of these practices well hidden behind closed doors, we are striving to bring the factory farms to the audiences to show them that this is the reality of where our food is coming from.

Hooray for Compassion Over Killing for reaching out to the younger crowd. And sure, the Jonas Brothers are cute and all, but you really need a break from them every once in awhile.

Visit QSR magazine for the entire interview.

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We’re sure Jamie Oliver likes naked women, but probably not attacking him in this manner.

When we told you British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s “Save Our Bacon” television show would educate people on the conditions some farm animals live in, we thought it might be a UK Prop2 2-like step forward in encouraging better treatment of animals before slaughter.

Oliver advocates buying British pork, versus cheaper pork produced elsewhere where animal welfare isn’t considered.

While some may be thankful for this small potential advancement, PETA is not satisfied and has targeted the celebrity chef for protests.

“The answer to saving pigs is not to buy British pork, it’s to go vegetarian,” PETA said, according to the UK Telegraph.

A spokesperson for Oliver, however, is defending him, saying Oliver is a “big supporter of animal welfare.”

“They do seem to be protesting against somebody who is trying to help the situation,” he said. “It’s a slightly odd place for them to be protesting but nonetheless they are welcome to do that. My main concern was that they would get cold. In the programme we never said that the British pig farming industry is completely whiter than white, we did a very balanced programme.”

His reference to “getting cold” refers to the naked, pregnant mothers who were caged outside his Fifteen Restaurant, meant to mimic conditions pigs often endure on animal farms.

Is there any truth to Oliver’s spokesperson’s statements? Could it be that PETA bares down too hard at times in their quest to make everyone vegetarian that they compromise efforts of those who at least are trying to improve some parts of the meat industry? Is it unrealistic to expect everyone to go completely veg and should activists spend equal efforts ensuring those animals that will eventually be eaten be treated as humanely as possible before and killed without pain?

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We already told you how Ingrid Newkirk of PETA said vegetarians and vegans should date omnivores to bring them over the their side and then dump them to move on and convert someone else.

We even joked that Natalie Portman might be doing this to Rob Pattinson.

But it looks like Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor really follows the rule.

Kareena became vegetarian while dating fellow Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor, but the two later broke up. Kareena and Shahid are still both veg, though, and Shahid even put his dog on a vegetarian diet.

Now, Kareena is involved with a guy who is, in her words, “hard core non-vegetarian, who at every given step would be eating his steak and his roast chicken.” But that’s not affecting her eating habits. From the Times of India:

“I did it completely because I believed in it. It’s because of a book I read and I completely believe in. Nobody has put a dagger to my head. I’ve learnt something from Shahid and that’s something that Saif appreciates and in fact Saif always tells me that “Listen, if now you go back to being a non vegetarian, I’ll loose faith in you as a person.” I’ve traveled the word with Saif and he’s sat across thousands of tables from me and I’ve stuck to my French fries even though I have to put on a kilo on my scale, but I would not go for the roast chicken.”

So Kareena came around on her own. But it looks like her past loves played a role. Will Kareena bring her new man over to the veg side? And will the poor soul be left behind once he gives up his steak and roast chicken?

Photo: India.FM on Wikimedia

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Stephen Colbert recently did a show featuring test tube meat, or as some would call it, Schmeat.

PETA’s President and Co-Founder Ingrid Newkirk has a couple of cameos.

PETA is currently offering $1 million dollars to the first team of scientists that can develop a method to produce viable, commercially available, lab-grown chicken meat by 2010.

Colbert also features Dr.Vladimir Mironov, a scientist who claims to have the knowledge and technology to produce test tube, or in vitro meat.

“Schmeat,” as Dr. Mironov calls it, is a “combinatinon of sh*t and meat.” But isn’t that what regular meat is already composed of?

Of course, Colbert is full of his usual sarcasm, especially considering he’s such a big fan science.

He love astrology, claiming it’s extremely helpful when hiring employees because, as of now, it’s still legal to discriminate against Virgos.

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New York Magazine recently did a recap of a Real Housewives of New York City episode, a reality TV show on the Bravo network featuring healthy foods chef Bethenny Frankel.

In a classic Siskel & Roeper deal, each housewife got the thumbs up or down, but Bethenny won columnists Chris Rovzar and Jessica Pressler over.

Her vegan baking didn’t, though.

“Bethenny suffered through everyone’s dating advice (“Why does everyone think I’m like Shrek or something?”), behaved through her drinks date with LuAnn, and amazingly, did not visibly dry heave when Alex told her she met Simon when she was trolling online for sex. She was matter-of-fact about her fellow housewives’ shortcomings (“I think that Ramona’s a little competitive with LuAnn”) and kind in that she didn’t reveal the reasons for her non-feelings for the guy from STK on-camera. (We’ll say it for her: He’s not hot enough. There.) Plus, her eye makeup was really well applied. So Bethenny, you won this round. Please don’t send us any more vegan cupcakes, though.“

Aw, come on guys. Who doesn’t love a vegan cupcake?

Bethenny’s company, Bethenny Bakes, offers a wide variety of egg and dairy free goodies. Not to mention she’s promoted veggie dips with Pepperidge Farm for the Super Bowl and made videos demonstrating tofu with eggless spread and open faced Boca Burger sandwiches with pesto.

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